Paixão
A Bíblia nos chama a dominar as paixões e desejos da carne. O cristão é chamado a viver pelo Espírito, crucificando as obras da carne e buscando a santidade em tudo.
Crucificar a carne
Os que são de Cristo crucificaram a carne com suas paixões e concupiscências. O domínio próprio é fruto do Espírito Santo.
But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.
Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.
Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour, (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)
Tudo para a glória de Deus
Quer comamos, quer bebamos, tudo deve ser feito para a glória de Deus. Devemos fugir das paixões que guerreiam contra a alma.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God’s glory.
But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature; and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.
For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear; and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures.